Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About Web-2.0

Meta notes: Where to find my microchunks

August 3, 2007 – 10:20 am

If you get the feeling I haven’t been writing here as much lately, you’re right.
But I’m still out here, reading everything I can get my hands on and throwing up links left and right.  They’re just not always where you’re expecting them, eh?
So then, if the meager postings to Delicious you find on the right [...]

Flickr Pro and the freemium business model for newspapers

May 24, 2007 – 9:33 am

Given the recent developments around our house and the logical uptick in uploading to Flickr, I went ahead and took the $24.95/yr plunge.
What I get for my money: Unlimited uploading, unlimited image storage, unlimited bundling and feeding of images, and all the old stuff that had been pushed out of my top 200 by the [...]

A framework for networked journalism

July 25, 2006 – 6:51 am

Jay Rosen lays all his cards on the table, posting his plans for NewAssignment.net, a to-be-constructed site where reporters and The People Formerly Known As The Audience can party together.
And by “party together,” I mean the masses can use all their social bookmarking/tagging/networking power to point to the stories they want to see covered more [...]

Best of Web 2.0

February 27, 2006 – 10:21 am

“What’s Web 2.0?” you ask.
“We’re still working on Web 1.0,” you say.
Okay, whatever, check out this easy-to-read, plain-language list of useful tools you can find on the Internet these days. If you haven’t used Flickr or Delicious, now’s the time. If you’ve never seen a Google Map, check it out.
These are tools for [...]